The only person who had a voice double on that film was Jim Broadbent, because they wanted Zidler to have an operatic voice. Otherwise, it's who you actually see.
The actual music of the era the film is set in is like dreadful oompah band stuff, so how do you render that this club where Satine works is the coolest place in the world in light of that sound? You choose a musical vernacular that people recognize.
The movie is very, very confronting (especially the first 15 minutes) (and I avoided it for years because I thought the musical choices would piss me off), but it's doing what it's doing very intentionally. I get why people can't stand it, but I still think that tango scene is a fine, fine, fine thing.
I'm going to shut up now, because I could talk about this film and how it was made ALL FUCKING DAY, but yeah. I love it to pieces (and have read pretty much everything the creative team has ever said about it) and I still have these moments of "why does this exist?"
i found it interesting, i mean that they used good choices of lyrics. but seriously the whole scene of Zigler kind of singing "like a virgin" at the duke....WTF?!
now i admit ythat "during platelet donations" is probably not th ebest time to seriously review the movie.. so it may make more sense if i watch it later, but... but.....
costumes? fabulous actors? spot on
but the musical numbers just kept throwing me for a loop. and asusual i always wonder things like "why didnt they throw the btch who gave the plot away out on her ear?" and "seriously dude...smile and nod, right?"
It's veeeeeeery, influenced by Bollywood, so it's very hard, I think for US film audiences that are used to being in a position to forget they are the audience, which this is the exact opposite of.
Two words - Baz Luhrmann. This is the same guy that brought you "Strictly Ballroom" and "Romeo+Juliet". Apparently the first movie was his experiment in dance. R+J was his experiments in language. Moulin Rouge was the culmination of that.
But yes, it's kinda trippy esp. if you aren't expecting it.
I agree. One of my favourite movies of all time is R+J: The Gang Flick. I'd love to see him do a Batman movie. It would risk having the same visual feel as Batman & Robin, the worst movie of the franchise, but I dare say the music (and hopefully,the acting) would be better.
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The actual music of the era the film is set in is like dreadful oompah band stuff, so how do you render that this club where Satine works is the coolest place in the world in light of that sound? You choose a musical vernacular that people recognize.
The movie is very, very confronting (especially the first 15 minutes) (and I avoided it for years because I thought the musical choices would piss me off), but it's doing what it's doing very intentionally. I get why people can't stand it, but I still think that tango scene is a fine, fine, fine thing.
I'm going to shut up now, because I could talk about this film and how it was made ALL FUCKING DAY, but yeah. I love it to pieces (and have read pretty much everything the creative team has ever said about it) and I still have these moments of "why does this exist?"
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now i admit ythat "during platelet donations" is probably not th ebest time to seriously review the movie.. so it may make more sense if i watch it later, but... but.....
costumes? fabulous
actors? spot on
but the musical numbers just kept throwing me for a loop. and asusual i always wonder things like "why didnt they throw the btch who gave the plot away out on her ear?"
and "seriously dude...smile and nod, right?"
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i thought the Toulouse was very well done.
the green fairy was . surrealist appropriate.
i will probably try to watch it again when i am NOT hooked up to a machine.
but still.seriously, watching zidler sing "like a virgin" with a table cloth draped over his head..
you start wondering what they put in the IV...
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Maybe in another five or ten years.
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But yes, it's kinda trippy esp. if you aren't expecting it.
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